An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.